"Entrapped, imprisoned and
disempowered" position of
women in Wuthering Heights
Catherine : "whip" her power since a very young age. her manipulative ways in controlling Edgar. rejects her role as wife and mother. "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff", Doesn't have the power to marry him, Hindley would not allow it and she is reliant on Heathcliff for her life, most likely to become "beggars". Catherine controls Heathcliff alive and dead. Edgars obligation to her. Embrace of death. she's trapped at T.G she cant from Edgar or Religious Vow she made to him, she cannot reject religion and is therefore imprisoned by it.